... Pacific?). Rabuka used this to justify his coup. Immediately before the coup, various CIA-linked labour unions turned up in the area; as did the National Endowment for Democracy, which, as Blum notes elsewhere in the book, does overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The day after the coup, the Pentagon announced that it was 'kinda delighted' that 'all of a sudden' their ships could go to Fiji. Blum doesn't note a short article that appeared in the Fiji Times describing another visitor to the island some ten years later around the time the most recent bout of troubles began. This was Julian Faux, a then recently retired Deputy ...

... deserved beneficiaries of funding coups in Congress. So when James Woolsey, the former CIA director talks about the lack of US intelligence capacity in the field of industrial espionage, he may well have inspired a few belly laughs in Crypto City. The CIA is pass , history, cold war. In the wake of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon terrorist atrocities, the slight lifting of the curtain on state intelligence-inspired economic espionage will be quietly ignored. While economic espionage was asserted by a former NSA employee to have been a 'top priority', the unforeseen new world order so cruelly introduced on 11 September 2001 will ensure a rather predictable and early death for the efforts of ...

... which they discuss concerns that a Senate investigating committee might reveal that the President had authorized jets from the U.S . aircraft carrier Essex to provide one hour of air cover for the brigade's B-26 bombers on the morning of April 19. The unmarked jets failed to rendezvous with the bombers, however, because the CIA and the Pentagon were unaware of a time zone difference between Nicaragua and Cuba. Two B-26s were shot down and four Americans lost (emphasis added). OK bomb In early March there were several reports from the U.S . quoting Timothy McVeigh's then contemporary confession to doing the Oklahoma bombing - and essentially doing it alone. Yet J ...

... Issue 40 The Clash of the Icons Douglas Valentine Political activist Daniel Ellsberg and Professor Alfred McCoy have something special in common. Based on their actions and accomplishments of nearly thirty years ago, they have achieved the status of icons within the subculture of what passes for the New Left. Icon Ellsberg became a celebrity in 1971 after he leaked The Pentagon Papers, an 'act of conscience' that helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War. This 'act of conscience' also, albeit accidentally, contributed to the demise of President Richard Nixon, whose felonious minions had allowed CIA officer E. Howard Hunt and erstwhile FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy to burglarize confidential files from Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office ...

... interesting and entertaining bits and pieces en route. So we get three chapters on the ex-Nazi arms dealers who worked for the US; a section on miscellaneous mercenary operations, including short sections on some UK firms; a chapter on Alexander Haig's post-government career in this field; and a chapter on the revolving door between the Pentagon and the arms corporations. The private sector has become increasingly involved in the use of military force abroad (a ) because of greater deniability - the same motive which produced 'private' spooks in the intelligence field, - and (b ) because of the political sensitivity of American casualties abroad. If someone is going to come home in ...

... of that year,(3 ) allegedly visiting clandestine training camps that the White House had ordered closed down. Hersh does not cover the administration's tentative moves toward rapprochement with Castro after the 1962 missile crisis and closedown of 'Operation Mongoose'. But evidence of deep disagreement with Kennedy's emerging detente with both Cuba and the USSR in the CIA and Pentagon can be found in the bizarre Life Magazine effort of June 7 1963 to prove that the missiles were still there.(4 ) Hersh's reading of JFK's November 18 1963 speech to the Inter-American Press Association is, again, supportive of the continuing 'get Castro' thesis. But it is by no means conclusive. According to ...

... on Sunday reported (11 April) that a 'secret Cabinet committee' has been set up to 'turn public opinion towards the EU'. The 'operation' is co-ordinated by David Cairns, an 'official in the European Union department of the Foreign Office. ' A familiar ring?In November 1997 the JFK Assassination Records Review Board released Pentagon documents which, according to the Reuters' report on this, show that 'The Pentagon drew up plans to mount a bloody "terror campaign" in the United States....and planned to blame it on Fidel Castro to justify a U.S . invasion of Cuba...... '. This sounds ...

... burial.(10) The NOIWON alert As Dr. Mootoo's best evidence established, most of the people at Jonestown were murdered. How is it, then, that Jonestown has become synonymous with 'mass suicide'? An 'After Action Report' of the Joint Chiefs of Staff helps to establish the chronology of the myth. According to the Pentagon, which took responsibility for transporting the dead back to the United States, the National Military Command Center (NMCC) was first notified of a disaster in Guyana at 7:18 pm on Saturday, November 18. This information, apparently based upon the reports brought back from Port Kaituma by the escaping small plane, was that Congressman ...

... other non-governmental organizations. The other tradition, less recognized, believes in and teaches the use of repressive violence, in Indonesia and other parts of the Third World. The conflicting goals of these two American traditions have led to recurring showdowns in Congress. In March 1998 Congress learned that, despite its express prohibition in 1992, the Pentagon had continued to supply training to the Indonesian army unit, Kopassus, that has been most involved in massacres and torture over the last 35 years. On May 8, 1998, the Pentagon headed off Congressional anger by suspending its controversial aid to the Indonesian Army (ABRI). It is however clear that Washington will not terminate the ...

... other military sources confirm the presence of the barbed wire compound at that location. The two man Black Ops (search) team were in the Gulf acting under Army Command. Both the Search and Recovery teams formed part of a Special Unit with the designation 'SCRSWA'. This unit has not been identified, despite a telephone call to the Pentagon library. According to sources, there was a British involvement. This has yet to be identified and confirmed, but it is thought possible the bacteriological weapon may have been of British manufacture. The Countess and the Lord meet the MOD In November 1997, at my request, the Countess of Mar, in the company of the former ...